Winchcombe is a Cotswold town in the local authority area of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. Its population according to the 2011 census was 4,538. During the Anarchy of the 12th century, a motte-and-bailey castle was erected in the very early 1140s by Roger Fitzmiles, second Earl of Hereford for the Empress Matilda, although the specific site of this is unidentified;. It has actually been recommended nevertheless, that it was to the south of St Peter's Church. In the Restoration period, Winchcombe was kept in mind for livestock rustling and other lawlessness, caused partly by hardship. In an effort to work, neighborhood individuals expanded tobacco as a cash crop, regardless of this practice having been banned because the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent out know at least one celebration to damage the illegal plant. In Winchcombe and also the instant vicinity can be located Sudeley Castle as well as the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was among the main centres of expeditions in Britain due to a phial possessed by the monks claimed to contain the Blood of Christ. There is nothing left of the previous Winchcombe Abbey. St Peter's Church in the centre of the town is kept in mind for its grotesques.